5.Denezhnye problems
How to take money - it is a question that can not be answered. I can only say that the two trips we took around 100 euros per day for three people not in the cheapest countries (meals, excursions, souvenirs, tickets, etc.), and we especially do not economize. Theoretically could spend half as much. However, almost all leaves significantly more and why this happens, I honestly do not know. But here is a sample calculation for those who want to austerity.
Be sure to start your trip Check List and the cost of additional excursions, entrance fees, etc. Many companies will give it to you without additional requirements. If you do not give, ask, or search online travel companies. Calculate which this list you want to go-go and how much it will cost. Multiply this figure by half (almost certainly for this article will be unforeseen costs, which will avoid possible or desirable). Plus twenty euros a day \u0026quot;to life. Plus a hundred euros just in case (if the manifest resistance, will bring back).
If your trip is in the whole euro zone, then you are traveling with a euro. If a country has its own currency, you can keep and euros and dollars, that you prefer. Guide usually lead you to the exchanger with a relatively favorable course or prompt, where such a finding. However, after I had once held three o\u0026#39;clock in the heat without a penny of local money in anticipation of the arrival in the \u0026quot;lucrative\u0026quot; exchanger, has made it a rule at least a small amount of change at the earliest opportunity on any course.
In Poland, on the road can pay in euros. But the surrender of will in zlotys.

6.B path.
Since you ride guide and two drivers. From the guide depends on how it seems to me far more than from the company, but choose to go to a specific guide, as a rule impossible. Again the lottery. The duties of the guide is to inform you all the information about the route of movement: when the people went, some excursions, when and where we go, etc. As this is vital information, you must not hesitate to ask questions and seek clarity. Unfortunately, there are guides who are very reluctant to share information or pronounce loudly and clearly enough. Guide also tells about the countries you pass through, carries some, and sometimes all tours. He Selita the hotel, gives a signal to the administration of the bus agrees with guides, tackle the problems, answers questions, helps with translation, filling out papers at the border - in short, doing everything that you could possibly imagine. Almost all of the above you have the right to require a guide (sometimes unfortunately have to demand it). But note that it still is not your personal guide, as a group, so it can not be your personal interpreter and advisor.
Be sure to take your mobile phone guide - just in case you are late, lost, and etc. He can himself to dictate to you, but if you do not ask - ask him. It is also desirable to exchange phone numbers with neighbors on the bus. In critical situations they will delay the administration of the bus.
The bus you to an air conditioner, toilet, hot water. With all these are problems. In \u0026quot;sredneblagopoluchnom\u0026quot; round air conditioning will work, but not always well enough (by the way, please note that the parking lot it does not work, so in southern countries to be standing in a bus unbearable), boiling water will calculate pair of glasses per person per day, and toilet will exhort you to go \u0026quot;only if you really, really need.\u0026quot;
Parking is not made less frequently than once every 4 hours, usually observed. If it\u0026#39;s just \u0026quot;Sanitary station\u0026quot;, then most likely it will be at a gas station, where there is a toilet (ladies, be prepared to queue), a small shop (the prices are generally comparable to Russia\u0026#39;s supermarkets) and maybe some fast food.
In a way, or will guide you anything to tell or show the film (the two TV screens on the bus). The problem of what you yourself would take, you need to consider in advance, because the removals took a substantial part-time tour (sometimes a whole day with short stops).
Now on a night crossing. It is not at all rounds and is considered the main difficulty of those tours, where is. My opinion: if you go to France, Benelux, Italy (in general, everywhere, except Germany, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia), the nocturnal removal may be a lesser evil than a day monotonous roads. For Deutsch autobahn - it is quite a boring thing.
Before the move night put 8 (according to other sources, 9) hours of \u0026quot;sludge bus\u0026quot;, that is, you walk through the city, most of the time alone, without a tour, but the bus may not go.
It is believed that for a night journey to have a special pillow (preferably air), a blanket and a blindfold on. I did none of this is not used. Just available odezhek mildest placed under his head, the largest (jacket, for example) is covered. Even if the day is hot, in the morning on the bus can be chilly cold, you need to have something laid. Maybe winter is even more important, but in winter I did not go.
The first night in the bus is usually heavy, sleep can be difficult, shallow sleep, often waking up, but you can make up for the day. The following night on wheels moved more easily. In general, the full course not sleep enough, but not too scary.
After a night journey you can stop for breakfast, but can - only to wash and breakfast will be offered in the bus. Then, to advance to buy food.

7.Pitanie.
In this issue, too, is very difficult to make predictions. Breakfast you will be in hotels. Continental breakfast - pastries, cheese, sausage, eggs, yogurt, tea and coffee. Many come with a bag, gathering the whole lot, carry away with them and eat during the day. This is generally something equivalent to theft, although this may not know everything.
If you have a whole day on the road, then you at least once a full stop to lunch. This may be fast food, where you can just take a look and liked a dish, and perhaps the distribution or order on the menu, which will have to respond to the names in an unfamiliar language. Frankly - a couple of times in such situations, I remained hungry: not that they can not understand, but the awkward slow turn. Guide can wait until all calmly eating (and then a dinner, given turn, spread over a couple of hours), and may declare the administration in a strictly scheduled time and then some will be pressed for time. Some prefer to all of this does not communicate, and eat in the bus personal inventory.
By destination you can come pretty late and then you drink tea with the fact that you have from the food. Rather guide will warn you about this beforehand and will offer during one of the stands to buy food for dinner.
Now the second version of the food - independent: during his stay in the cities. Here is hungry to remain extremely difficult. If you are confused by the high prices or language problems, you should focus on a variety of fast-food outlets, where you can just poke in favorite dish. If you know at least English, is looking for a place where there is an English menu. If not, call upon the aid of their linguistic abilities and try to read the menu on the language in which it is written. This is easier than it sounds: a lot of names of dishes like written in different languages. Although if you do not travel in the country, and a few days, it makes sense to prepare in advance: to write out some basic phrasebook names of dishes.
And another thing, the food did not fall. I\u0026#39;m sorry too. Fast-food outlets like McDonald\u0026#39;s and KFC can be used not only for food (there is a tastier and more interesting for about the same or slightly more money) but as a place where you can without making a reservation, use the bathroom. But he may be paid.

8.B cities and on bus trips. 
Despite the fact that the guides quite intensively graze \u0026quot;tourists almost every day is free time when you can go wherever you want and need to return at the right time and right place. This requires a fairly good orientation skills. One way or another the vast majority of successful deals, but you can get lost (in our last trip to our group this happened on three occasions, thus delaying the entire group for half an hour or more), so if you\u0026#39;re not very confident in their abilities, to join the more experienced fellow traveler.
For the success of independent walking very desirable card. They can be obtained in various ways.
- Buy: in advance, in Russia or already on arrival in the country.
- Ask for a time with friends who went to the same country.
- Some travel companies offer plans for tourist cities - thanks to them.
- Finally, maps, brochures and many other valuable information can be found at the information stand: at the reception desk in the hotel, at the cash register of museums, large stores, targeted at tourists, and finally in data centers - as a rule they raspolodzheny in cities, close to tourist sites. They are designated beech i, they can ask questions and get answers in different languages, to buy tickets to events, etc. A variety of leaflets are suitable not only for information (often really valuable), but as souvenirs.
On the delay. If you spit on your fellow travelers, the delays are possible, especially in the administration of the hotel. Excursions and free time the group reduced the term of your tardiness. But if you do not want to bring a great deal of trouble, better not miss the key points of the route (on the ferry to crossing the border, etc.). The delay of this will lead to hours-long delays. The threat of lengthening the time the tour (bus rentals, penalties, expired visa) is your guide be moved to throw you in a foreign country.
Most tours are places \u0026quot;wiring\u0026quot; of tourists. This is all kinds of \u0026quot;diamond factory\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;dairies\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Museums spirits.\u0026quot; Visit them at times sent to the personal enrichment of your guide (commission sales), and sometimes he performs the urgent request of the authorities of the country (I know, for example, about the Dutch Ministry of Tourism). Usually it\u0026#39;s a waste not as much money as time. Often impossible to avoid, is \u0026quot;to relax and enjoy.\u0026quot;
In the cities money and documents, hold close to ourselves, and better money, lay in several places (we tend to divide in half with her husband, and the last visit with the grown up daughter) and make copies of the documents, because, unfortunately, stolen in the crowd or transport - a frequent phenomenon.

My story is a bit boring and a problem-oriented and detail. I hope that you will successfully overcome them (or do not notice) and this will allow you to enjoy the view, as there is almost nothing written - the beauty of European cities and joy interesting holiday. Have a nice trip!
PS Thanks to commentators, particularly GAL, Kotik, Irina: their information is included in the publication. The originals can be viewed on the forum.